Giant squid beaks turned up in whale stomachs long before anyone filmed the animal. An oceanologist explains why people are missing from the deep sea.
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Besides electrical spikes, brain cells can wrap non-coding RNA in membrane bubbles and send it to neighbours, changing how their genes work. A biologist explains.
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Women have two X chromosomes and men one, so female cells wrap one X in a coat of non-coding RNA and switch it off. A biologist explains why it matters.
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Mice exposed to stress had pups that were anxious from birth. Biologist Aleksey Shatskikh explains how small RNAs in sperm can carry that signal to the embryo.
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Drilling for oil under the sea, people sequenced the mud and met fungi, bacteria and viruses. One oceanologist says they may outweigh the rest of life on Earth.
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Fungi that eat plastic are real. A mycologist explains why the people who found one got scared, and what a loose strain could do to a civilisation built on plastic.
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A human genome cut into ten-letter words runs to 300 million tokens. How a language-model trick lets AI read DNA, and why drug doses and gene therapy are the targets.
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